Friday, February 6, 2009

Cromwell Foundation Prizes

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation announces its annual prize competition for 2009. The announcement explains:

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation annually awards to junior scholars two prizes for excellence in scholarship in the field of American Legal History. A $5,000 book prize and a $2,500 prize for dissertations or articles of comparable aspiration are designed to recognize and promote new work in the field by graduate students, law students, and faculty not yet tenured. The work may be in any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies, but scholarship in the colonial and early national periods will receive some preference. The Foundation awards the prize on the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History. The Committee will consider books and articles published, or dissertations accepted, in the previous calendar year. It will announce the award at the annual meeting of the Society in the following autumn.

Anyone may nominate works for the prizes. The Committee will accept nominations from authors, dissertation advisors, presses, or anyone else. Nominations for this year's prizes should include a curriculum vitae of the author and be accompanied by a hard copy version of the work (no electronic submissions, please) sent to each member of the committee and postmarked no later than May 31, 2009

Professor Richard Ross, ChairProfessor of Law and HistoryUniversity of Illinois College of Law504 E. Pennsylvania AvenueChampaign, IL 61820